Mr. Liu also suggested that some doomsday predictions were exaggerated, and might be the result of inefficient local management.

Established in 1994, this definition has, he says, "prompted doomsday predictions of a silent epidemic" and generated "enormous public anxiety".

When the Argentine economy collapsed in December 2001, doomsday predictions abounded.

The doomsday predictions for the Giants' opening game - and the season in general - have proved an unending source of motivation.

After all, the 1947 doomsday prediction marked the start of a golden age.

The probabilistic doomsday prediction called here the "Carter catastrophe" is real.

The demonstrations were not the only thing that fell far short of doomsday predictions.

I now own an extensive collection of doomsday predictions and personal messages from self-appointed divinities.

Black is dogged on his travels by a strange man interested in both the Millennium Group and doomsday predictions.

Despite Metcalfe's column-drinking, doomsday predictions about the collapse of the Internet have never been hard to come by.